As China rose to its position of global superpower, Chinese groups in the West watched with anticipation and trepidation. In this volume, international scholars examine how artists, writers, filmmakers, ...

Official Chinese history has always been written from a centrist
viewpoint. Chieftains into Ancestors describes the
intersection of imperial administration and chieftain-dominated local
culture in the ...

In Milestones on a Golden Road, Richard King presents
pivotal works of fiction published under the watchful eye of
China’s Communist regime between 1945 and 1980. Addressing
questions of literary production, ...

Intoxicating Manchuria reveals how the powerful alcohol and opium industries in Northeast China were altered by warlord rule, Japanese occupation, political conflict, and a vigorous anti-intoxicant movement. ...

Merry Laughter and Angry Curses reveals how the late-Qing-era tabloid press became the voice of the people. As periodical publishing reached a fever pitch, tabloids had free rein to criticize officials, ...

In the early 1900s, the Qing dynasty implemented a nationwide school
system to buttress its power. Although the Communists, contemporary
observers, and more recent scholarship have all depicted rural ...

China was afflicted by a brutal succession of conflicts through much of
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Yet there has never been clear
understanding of how wartime suffering has defined the nation ...

When the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949, Mao Zedong declared that “not even one person shall die of hunger.” Yet some 30 million peasants died of starvation and exhaustion during the ...

Part history, part biography, and part mystery story, Smokeless
Sugar traces the formation of a national economy in China through
an intriguing investigation of the 1936 execution of an allegedly
corrupt ...

Relying on documents previously unavailable to both Western and
Chinese researchers, this history demonstrates how Western
technology and evolving traditional values resulted in the birth of a
unique ...